Senior SOC Engineer

Sopra Steria
Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1EW, United Kingdom
Last month
£65,000 – £75,000 pa

Salary

£65,000 – £75,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
24 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

25 days holiday

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be involved with the design, documentation and installation and management of security monitoring tools/platforms to provide data to the Sopra Steria Security Operational Centre (SOC) for analysis.

Your role will be pivotal in ensuring that we have the correct tooling operating to ensure that we can provide protection and monitoring of our clients. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess risks, design controls, and define testing requirements.

Your leadership and expertise will be critical in fostering a strong culture of technology expertise and security by design across Sopra Steria. You will play a lead role in helping our clients understand their security challenges and then specify, plan and implement controls to improve their security posture.

This is a superb opportunity to continue developing your hands-on experience in the field of cybersecurity while contributing to the overall security posture of the organisation.

What you will be doing:

  • Lead on security activities for large client engagements through creating and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships (customer and internal), developing a solution that align with overall objectives and contractual obligations.
  • Identify and understand customer requirements and demonstrate creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer.
  • Identify and design solutions that understand customer requirements and apply industry best practice in solutions for the benefit of the customer.
  • Collaborate with other team members to identify potential cyber risks, assess their impact and develop technical mitigation strategies.
  • Working with Security Architecture to inform focused security solution design for SOC/SIEM solutions.
  • Formulate security strategy, creatively applying a wide range of technical and/or management principles.
  • Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and industry standard methodologies, and provide recommendations for improvements.
  • Lead security aspects of bid responses and opportunity identification.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and industry standard methodologies.
  • Enable the development and growth of the Cyber Security team through mentoring of junior team members, supporting recruitment activities and encouraging engagement with the Cyber Security Community of Expertise.

What you will bring:

  • Successful track record leading teams within Security Engineering coupled with experience of leading large client engagements.
  • Strong client management and relationship building experience.
  • Ability to absorb complex information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences, assess and evaluate risk and understand the implications of new technologies.
  • Good project management skills, with the ability to balance multiple initiatives and priorities simultaneously.
  • SIEM experience with Azure Sentinel and or Splunk.
  • Experience of running simulated or reacting to actual incidents, following procedures and good practice to limit, reduce and remediate.
  • Strong leadership, influencing and people management skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with ability to assess complex situations, identify risks, and recommend effective solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels from Executives to end users.
  • Demonstrate significant personal responsibility or autonomy, with little need for escalation.

It would be great if you had:

  • Cloud, on-prem, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS environments.
  • Security incident response, code / malware analysis.
  • Strong coding skills.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Hertfordshire

Security Clearance Level: willingness to go through SC

Internal Recruiter: Jane

Salary: Up to £75,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days,£5,400 car allowance, Medical Insurance, life assurance, and 6% pension

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

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